So ive been out of the office for about two and a half weeks, started as a vacation finished as very sick with a nasty virus. I walk back into the office go to log on, not only did i forget 1 of my more important passwords, i forgot 3 for the life of me i couldnt remember what they where. ive spent almost my entire morning just back tracking and reading emails from things ive missed and doing catch up work. Sometimes i wish i never go on vacation for this simple reason of doing backup work... otherwise hows everyone been

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last summer i took 5 weeks off to stay home with my newborn son - going back to work was very hard! i had very few emails since i had taken myself out of all lists and remembered my passwords b/c in the name of security i have been using the same password for about 5 years

I was hospitalized for two and half weeks in early March, and came back and couldn't remember a dang thing. Some passwords happen to expire during that time, and others, I simply couldn't remember. I blame being loaded up on surgery drugs.

something to do with "attempting" to relax can typically involve sitting in a single location doing nothing but breathing and day dreaming about that girl on the second floor of your office or how you cant decide if your left foot is larger then the right. There is rumors that cell phones have been found murdered in the corners of appartments and fail co workers having high problems with thier printers.

Vacations are necessary, but as we say in our office "nobody needs a vacation like somebody who just took one". I don't know if returning to messes is unique to IT, but it feels like that's the case. Who else comes back to so many users who, left to their own devices, never failed to make the wrong decision?

I'm not allowed to take a long vacation. Besides if I tried I would get called a 100 times a day rendering a vacation pointless.

Vacations are Great...

Usually spend about 20% of them Working but hey I'm not in the office?!?

If I don't go somewhere with Phone Coverage then I'm a little stressed...

A cruise to Mexico 2/3 years ago was wild...
Remoting in and working @ $$'s Per Minute for the connection to apply bandaids to keep things online! Then the shutdown all Cell / Inet Comms 12 hours before Final Day to finalize accounts.... left me commless and stressed while mail server went offline!!!!

Things only break when I take "vacation" so I don't do that anymore. I take "time off" instead to fix my house and all the broken crap outside of the office that I don't have time for when I'm working.

Went overseas to visit the in-laws for two weeks but that doesn't count as vacation either, that is a special kind of hell I get subjected to about every five years or so made even more special by the fact that none of us speak a common language. On the upside, there is no way to contact me when I do that <wink, wink>

Not mentioning that I can run my department from anywhere in the world with an internet connection, they don't need to know that, no they don't, trust me they really don't need to know that.

Ever since I had my company phone taken off me, I can enjoy relaxing evenings, weekends and holidays. If anything goes wrong, it is the responsibility of the Technical Director (who hasn't got a clue about IT). At least the Maintenance Manager knows the company who installed our systems so can get help.

All my passwords, and those of my users are stored in a secure location on my home computer and ancient pocket pc. I just hope I don't forget the password to that piece of software.